Windows Contracts in Northamptonshire

Microsoft Windows
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire with a requirement for Windows skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Windows over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 10 12 6
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 +4
Contract jobs citing Windows 21 27 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 10.05% 11.02% 16.30%
As % of the Operating Systems category 63.64% 84.38% 82.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 16 46
10th Percentile £196 £144 £130
25th Percentile £356 £161 £159
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £392 £189 £248
Median % change year-on-year +107.14% -23.64% +23.75%
75th Percentile £430 £238 £409
90th Percentile £490 £384 £488
East Midlands median daily rate £215 £325 £240
% change year-on-year -33.85% +35.42% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 6
10th Percentile - £12.89 £16.50
25th Percentile - £15.32 £19.88
Median hourly rate - £18.24 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.19% +40.98%
75th Percentile - £19.38 £23.13
90th Percentile - £19.65 £23.38
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.00 £17.72 £20.75
% change year-on-year -4.06% -14.60% +38.33%

All Operating Systems
Northamptonshire

Windows is in the Operating Systems category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire with a requirement for operating system skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 33 32 73
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 15.79% 13.06% 19.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 19 58
10th Percentile £231 £152 £131
25th Percentile £356 £163 £179
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £200 £347
Median % change year-on-year +100.00% -42.36% +63.29%
75th Percentile £488 £378 £499
90th Percentile £504 £538 £506
East Midlands median daily rate £338 £350 £300
% change year-on-year -3.57% +16.67% -4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 6
10th Percentile - £12.89 £16.50
25th Percentile - £15.32 £19.88
Median hourly rate - £18.24 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - -15.19% +40.98%
75th Percentile - £19.38 £23.13
90th Percentile - £19.65 £23.38
East Midlands median hourly rate £17.00 £17.72 £18.50
% change year-on-year -4.06% -4.22% +23.33%

Windows
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing Windows as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for Windows in Northamptonshire

Windows
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Windows in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for Windows in Northamptonshire

Windows
Daily Rate Histogram in Northamptonshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Windows in Northamptonshire over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Windows in Northamptonshire

Windows
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Windows in Northamptonshire.

Hourly rate trend for Windows in Northamptonshire

Windows
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Windows within the Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Northampton 0 18 £400 +112.77% 8
Kettering -1 2 £215 +34.38% 6
Wellingborough +1 1 £135 -48.57% 2
Windows
East Midlands

Windows
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (23.81%) JBoss
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (47.62%) AWS
2 5 (23.81%) OpenShift
3 4 (19.05%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (9.52%) Azure
5 1 (4.76%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) Firewall
2 1 (4.76%) DSL
2 1 (4.76%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 5 (23.81%) Elasticsearch
2 5 (23.81%) RDBMS
2 5 (23.81%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (28.57%) Jenkins
1 6 (28.57%) JIRA
2 5 (23.81%) Bitbucket Server
2 5 (23.81%) CA Release Automation
2 5 (23.81%) Git
2 5 (23.81%) SonarQube
2 5 (23.81%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (23.81%) TeamCity
General
1 5 (23.81%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Banking
3 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Manufacturing
4 1 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Support Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) Cloud Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) DBA
3 4 (19.05%) Architect
3 4 (19.05%) Designer
3 4 (19.05%) SQL DBA
4 3 (14.29%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (14.29%) SQL Server DBA
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Architect
5 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Solutions Architect
5 2 (9.52%) IT Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) 1st Line Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) 1st Line Support Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Agile Delivery Lead
6 1 (4.76%) Build Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 1 (4.76%) IT Analyst
6 1 (4.76%) IT Support
6 1 (4.76%) Lead
6 1 (4.76%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (23.81%) Elastic Stack
1 5 (23.81%) Spring Boot
2 4 (19.05%) OpenAPI
2 4 (19.05%) RAML
2 4 (19.05%) RESTful
2 4 (19.05%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Driving Licence
2 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (28.57%) Linux
1 6 (28.57%) Windows Server
2 5 (23.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (9.52%) Windows 10
4 1 (4.76%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Mentoring
2 7 (33.33%) CI/CD
2 7 (33.33%) DevOps
3 5 (23.81%) Build Automation
3 5 (23.81%) Code Quality
3 5 (23.81%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (23.81%) Data Modelling
3 5 (23.81%) Deployment Automation
3 5 (23.81%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (23.81%) High Availability
3 5 (23.81%) Microservices
3 5 (23.81%) Migration
3 5 (23.81%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (19.05%) Architectural Design
4 4 (19.05%) Project Delivery
4 4 (19.05%) Service Delivery
5 3 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (9.52%) Agile
6 2 (9.52%) Customer Service
7 1 (4.76%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) C#
1 5 (23.81%) Perl
1 5 (23.81%) Python
2 4 (19.05%) Java
3 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.76%) Ruby
3 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) Degree
1 5 (23.81%) MCITP
1 5 (23.81%) MCTS
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 14 (66.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (23.81%) Docker
3 1 (4.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Progress Chef
2 5 (23.81%) Kibana
2 5 (23.81%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.76%) SCCM
3 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) AppDynamics
1 5 (23.81%) Red Hat
1 5 (23.81%) Splunk
2 4 (19.05%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Atlassian
3 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow